In 1980 was declared a National Tourist attraction by the Macarthur District Gazette

It was the second of this design and size in the world.

Made from brick and stainless steel it had walls of glass letting in natural night by day and lights for night milking.

It was 24 metres in diameter and was capable of milking 2500 cows twice a day.

Each cow was milked in about 7 minutes.

They entered and left at the same point and as they travelled around being milked, they ate.

It required a small staff of nine to operate milking 300 cows per hour.

It was an icon in Australia and significant in that it shows the scale and development of dairying in Menangle.

Tourists and school children visited weekdays and weekends to experience the “special milk” and see the state of the art milking process and production.

Registered Trade Marks were ‘Camden Vale’, ‘Cowpasture’, ‘Laurel’, and ‘Milk with the golden cap’, that were used to name produce from the Dairy, Agriculture and Orchard producer, Camden Park Estate Company.

BHP state “It (The Menangle Area) provides the opportunity to interpret the history of dairy farming and production in the region for a period encompassing 150 years of development.

I too visited this beaut site when I was a kid,about 10 years old . The milk and food from the area was grand and the Rotorlactor was state of the art for its time. I am sad to see it now , another Aussie business gone , but why ,, we should be supporting these businesses not the foreign owned ,

Just cleaning my Mum’s souvenir spoons. She unfortunately passed away in 1980. Came across a spoon from The Rotolactor, Menangle. Then living in Ingleburn, we often visited the Rotolactor and then went swimming at Menangle. I’m
sure the spoon must be at least 60 years old.

HAVE GOT 2 OR 3 MIN. MOVIE OF ROTOLACTOR , ON GROUND AND EVEN FLYING OVER .
WOULD APPRECIATE TO KNOW WHAT BEST I CAN WITH THIS , ESPECIALLY HELPING A CHARITY OR SIMILAR .
APPRECIATE DETAILS SOON AS POSSIBLE PLEASE
PS COLOUR MOVIE , NOT JUST B/W